CANADA’s much stricter drunk driving laws take effect today, DECEMBER 18TH. Penalties are greatly increasing for drunk driving, and police powers are expanding to demand breath samples of one and all. At the same time, rules for drug-impaired driving go into effect. This is a wholesale change to the criminal code.

Changes to impaired driving laws will reduce the number of people who die in crashes caused by drunk drivers, predicts the head of Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada.